September 18, 1934 - Jan Caubergh
Caubergh's record spans two distinct episodes of lethal violence separated by more than a decade, marking him as one of Belgium's more notorious postwar criminal cases. His 1979 crimes — the killing of a pregnant neighbor, the strangling of his girlfriend and their infant son, and attacks on police — unfolded in rapid succession and prompted a multi-day manhunt across Antwerp's waterways and industrial sites. The breadth of victims, ranging from a young pregnant woman to a five-month-old child, and the deliberate targeting of law enforcement, set his case apart from more narrowly defined criminal histories.
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Jan Caubergh (18 September 1934 – 29 November 2013) was a Belgian serial killer. In 1966, he received 25 years of forced labour for his participation in a robbery in which his gang shot a nurse who was severely maimed and later committed suicide. In 1977 he was released on parole.
On 21 February 1979, he raped his pregnant neighbour, 19-year-old Yvonne Smits, shooting her in the back of the head afterwards. Later he strangled his girlfriend, 24-year-old Rina Van Geldorp and their five-month-old son Nicky. He also wounded a policeman with a Long Rifle, later rigging up his police car in an attempt to injure another two policemen. After a manhunt lasting several days in which he hid on barges on the Albert Canal and a bottle stopper factory in Deurne, he was arrested in a hotel in Atheneumbuurt, Antwerp. He was given the death sentence, but it was later converted to a life imprisonment.
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